The Terrorium #8: Algorithm Blues

Digital horror to trip your short-circuit.

Digital horror is some of the scariest money can buy. It’s been around for a while, I mean in 1977 Giorgio De Maria gave us “The Twenty Days of Turin,” George Orwell gave us “1984,” what? 30 years earlier. But now? It’s a whole new level. The reason “The Twenty Days of Turin,” horrifies me as much as it does is because of just how accurately it predicted the internet, and all the gritty, dodgy, horny corners of it. Digital horror is aware of the fact that it doesn’t necessarily need to conjure monsters lurking under the bed or hidden in wardrobes. The horror is handheld. A few taps away. Maybe blasting through your speakers. You could click away from the relatively pretty safe realm of Instagram, hop on the internet and land yourself in deep trouble within seconds.

Social Media Horror:

• Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman

• Where They Wait by Scott Carson

• Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin

• Unboxed by Briana Morgan

• Influencer by Adam Cesare

• Ghoster by Jason Arnopp

Internet Horror:

• Amygdalatropolis by B.R Yeager

• Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes by Eric Larocca

• The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio De Maria

• Rekt by Alex Gonzalez

• Scanlines by Todd Keisling

• The Sluts by Dennis Cooper

• The Girl in The Video by Michael David Wilson

Broadcast Horror:

• The Loop by Jeremy Robert Johnson

• Radio Tower by Boris Bacic

• Ghost Radio by Leopoldo Gout

• Broadcast by Liam Brown

• 8114 by Joshua Hull

Video Game Horror:

• Vaporware by Richard Dansky

• Such Lovely Skin by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne

• Zero Lives Remaining by Adam Cesare

• Polybius by Collin Armstrong

• The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti by Stephen Graham Jones

• You’ve Lost A Lot of Blood by Eric Larocca

• End of Watch by Stephen King

AI Horror:

• This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno

• William by Mason Coile

• The Mansion by Ezekiel Boone

• Amen Maxine by Faith Gardner

• Rose/House by Arkady Martine